PROPOSED Chinese Web Interest Group Charter

The Chinese Web Interest Group provides a forum for W3C members to enhance the participation in Web standards work from the Chinese Web community. The group will focus primarily on identifying requirements of high priority to the Chinese Web community, on helping the Chinese members to get familiar with the process of W3C standards activities, on discussion of technical ideas with the potential to be proposed to W3C, on standards testing and implementation, as well as corresponding standardization opportunities for W3C while assisting the participation and contribution from the Chinese Web community.

Join the Chinese Web Interest Group.

This proposed charter is available on GitHub. Feel free to raise issues.

Charter Status See the group status page and detailed change history.
Start date [dd monthname yyyy] (date of the "Call for Participation", when the charter is approved)
End date [dd monthname yyyy] (Start date + 2 years)
Chairs Qing An (Alibaba), Wanming Lin (Intel), Zitao Wang (Huawei)
Team Contacts Xiaoqian Wu (0.05 FTE), Xueyuan Jia (0.03 FTE)
Meeting Schedule Teleconferences: as-needed.
Face-to-face: group face-to-face meetings may be scheduled by consent of the participants, usually about 2 or 3 per year.

Motivation and Background

The Chinese Web Interest Group is designed as a forum to enhance the participation in Web standards work from the Chinese Web community.

Scope

Topics and areas that are in-scope for the Interest Group include:

  • Identify requirements of high priority to the Chinese Web community and encourage the use cases input from the Chinese Web community
  • Assist Chinese members to get familiar with the process, tools and other needed info to participate in W3C standards activities
  • Discuss technical ideas with the potential to be proposed to W3C
  • Join the testing and implementation efforts of W3C standards
  • Identify and communicate standardization opportunities for W3C
  • Organize local events, identify the needs of members, find a match with W3C's existing work, and establish liaison with relevant W3C groups, standards organizations in Chinese regions, regulatory agencies/bodies in Chinese regions, and Chinese Web developers
  • Inclusion of stakeholders with diverse requirements and perspectives from the Chinese Web community to inform W3C work

Out of Scope

The technical development of standards is not in scope for the Interest Group. Technical discussions are expected to take place within the appropriate W3C groups if such a group exists or within a dedicated Community Group or Business Group when incubation is needed.

Deliverables

Non-normative documents may be created, such as use case and requirement documents, primer, or best practice documents to support web developers when designing applications.

The Interest Group may also make proposals to other W3C Groups with the assistance of the W3C Team Contact when there is evidence of sufficient Member interest in a work item.

Success Criteria

  • Participation via mailing list from people representing various stakeholder communities in China, including industry, academia, SDOs, government agencies, developers, regulators, and users
  • Members of the Interest Group join relevant Working Groups and drive the development of work items
  • Members of the Interest Group start or join related Community/Business Groups
  • Constructive feedback on W3C deliverables posted for review on the Chinese Web Interest Group mailing list
  • Engagement and coordination with other organizations in the Chinese Web community to promote adherence to W3C standards
  • Establishing task forces dedicated to topics of interest to members for deeper discussion and exploration

To achieve this, the Interest Group will organize regular conference calls to update members on progress of work items, and to invite other groups and organizations to present their work to Interest Group participants.

Coordination

For all deliverables, this Interest Group will seek horizontal review for accessibility, internationalization, privacy, and security with the relevant Working and Interest Groups, and with the TAG. The Chinese Web Interest Group:

Participation

To be successful, this Interest Group is expected to have representatives from a major portion of W3C members in China for its duration. Individuals who wish to actively participate but are not affiliated with a W3C Member Organization are encouraged to apply to participate as an Invited Expert. We encourage all W3C members who are interested in helping to enhance the participation from Chinese members to join this Interest Group.

The group encourages questions, comments and issues on its public mailing lists and document repositories, as described in Communication.

Participants in the group are required (by the W3C Process) to follow the W3C Code of Conduct.

Communication

Informal coordination is done via the Interest Group's mailing lists, GitHub as well as other communication channels by consent of the participants. The Interest Group is a public forum; its mailing lists and archives are publicly accessible.

This group uses the public mailing list public-chinese-web@w3.org (archive) and GitHub.

The meeting minutes from teleconference and face-to-face meetings will be archived for public review as well, and technical discussions and issue tracking will be conducted in a manner that can be both read and written to by the general public. The meetings themselves are not open to public participation, however.

The group may use a Member-confidential mailing list for administrative purposes and, at the discretion of the Chairs and members of the group, for member-only discussions in special cases when a participant requests such a discussion.

The Interest Group conducts its conversations primarily in Chinese. Liaisons with other W3C Groups will be conducted in English.

Information about the group (including details about deliverables, issues, actions, status, participants, and meetings) will be available from the Interest Group home page.

Decision Policy

This group will seek to make decisions through consensus and due process, per the W3C Process Document (section 5.2.1, Consensus). Typically, an editor or other participant makes an initial proposal, which is then refined in discussion with members of the group and other reviewers, and consensus emerges with little formal voting being required.

However, if a decision is necessary for timely progress and consensus is not achieved after careful consideration of the range of views presented, the Chairs may call for a group vote and record a decision along with any objections.

To afford asynchronous decisions and organizational deliberation, any resolution (including publication decisions) taken in a face-to-face meeting or teleconference will be considered provisional. A call for consensus (CfC) will be issued for all resolutions (for example, via email GitHub issue or web-based survey), with a response period from one week to 10 working days, depending on the chair's evaluation of the group consensus on the issue. If no objections are raised by the end of the response period, the resolution will be considered to have consensus as a resolution of the Interest Group.

All decisions made by the group should be considered resolved unless and until new information becomes available or unless reopened at the discretion of the Chairs.

This charter is written in accordance with the W3C Process Document (Section 5.2.3, Deciding by Vote) and includes no voting procedures beyond what the Process Document requires.

Patent Disclosures

The Interest Group provides an opportunity to share perspectives on the topic addressed by this charter. W3C reminds Interest Group participants of their obligation to comply with patent disclosure obligations as set out in Section 6 of the W3C Patent Policy. While the Interest Group does not produce Recommendation-track documents, when Interest Group participants review Recommendation-track specifications from Working Groups, the patent disclosure obligations do apply. For more information about disclosure obligations for this group, please see the licensing information.

Licensing

This Interest Group will use the W3C Software and Document license for all its deliverables.

About this Charter

This charter has been created according to section 3.4 of the Process Document. In the event of a conflict between this document or the provisions of any charter and the W3C Process, the W3C Process shall take precedence.

Charter History

The following table lists details of all changes from the initial charter, per the W3C Process Document (section 4.3, Advisory Committee Review of a Charter):

Charter Period Start Date End Date Changes
Initial Charter 20 September 2018 30 September 2020
  • 2019-03: Added Anqi (Angel) Li as co-chair.
  • 2019-11: Qingqian Tao stepped down, Xing Peng appointed as co-chair.
  • 2020-06: Xing Peng stepped down, Yiling Gu appointed as co-chair.
Rechartered 13 October 2020 30 September 2022 Mentioned that the IG may create non-normative documents.
  • 2021-05-28: Zhiqiang Yu stepped down, Zitao Wang appointed as co-chair.
  • 2021-11-05: Anqi (Angel) Li stepped down, Qing An appointed as co-chair.
Charter extension 1 October 2022 30 December 2022 None.
Rechartered 30 December 2022 30 December 2024 None.
Charter extension 31 December 2024 30 June 2025 A draft charter is under development. Comments can be raised on GitHub.
Rechartered [dd monthname yyyy] [dd monthname yyyy]

Aligned with the latest charter template changes.

Change log

Changes to this document are documented in this section.